“What is coming upon the world is the Light of the World. It is Christ. That is the comfort of it. The challenge of it is that it has not come yet. Only the hope for it has come, only the longing for it. In the meantime we are in the dark, and the dark, God knows, is also in us. We watch and wait for a holiness to heal us and hallow us, to liberate us from the dark. Advent is like the hush in a theater just before the curtain rises. It is like the hazy ring around the winter moon that means the coming of snow which will turn the night to silver. Soon. But for the time being, our time, darkness is where we are.” – Frederick Buechner
A friend shared the above quote today and I was struck by the words ‘Advent is like the hush in a theater just before the curtain rises.’ That moment when the lights go down, the music has not yet started, some people are enlarged with the silence of the moment, others rustle with their belongings, a sweet wrapper, final words bubble over. Some are impatient with others, some let it go. Advent is similar. Some folk slow right down and wait with baited breathe, for others there is a frantic rush to get everything ready. There is excitement, there is disappointment, there is hope, there is grief, there is longing, there is silence, there is bustle. Some love the silence, some long for the silence, others love the rush and bustle, while others hope next year will not be another last minute moment.
Praying for you all in that moment when the lights have gone down, the music has not yet started and you wait.
Praying for you in whatever shape that waiting looks for you, and however you long for it to look like.
Praying that God incarnate will enlarge that moment for you as you sit between the moment of now and the moment of the Kingdom come.
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